House Republicans take first step in mass deportation scheme

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24. Pure racist assholes

I remain unconvinced that illegal immigration - the presence of out-of-status people - is a real problem in the US. There is no evidence that these people are displacing US citizens for jobs in any significant way. There is no evidence that we are being "overrun". There is evidence that out-of-status immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than US citizens. There is ample evidence that these people fill a critical need for labor in areas that US persons decline to take on. There is data showing that deportations under Democratic presidents has been higher than deportations under Republican presidents, but we don't get "credit" for that by Republicans. There is data showing that the taxes that out-of-status people pay are greater than the cost of deporting them.

On top of all this, there is ample evidence and actual occurrences of the inhumanity of accelerated or increased deportation programs (I'm thinking substandard accommodations (i.e., "prison camps" ) and child separations).

We've brought large categorizations of laborers under some sort of legal status. We've given dreamers, and people who came as infants, a form of legal status. There are other categories in which we've conferred some sort of legal status on may immigrants. This leaves very few left who are eligible for deportation. We should focus on this smaller subgroup - which is what ICE has been focusing on, up t this point - and not talk of "mass deportations".

These Republicans can just eat my ass.